Nick WIley

The following is a partial transcript from an Alliance Highly Confidential Information/Secret/Eyes Only Document, once marked Destroy Before Reading!

Name: Nick Wiley

Date of Birth: currently unknown

Age: currently unknown, but can usually pass his nearly 3 foot stature off as anywhere from a tallish 3 year old to a shortish 15 year old.

Estimated Age: somewhere between 28 and 48, cellular testing reveals inconsistent results.

Place of Birth: currently unknown. Born in a Tree?! So Nick claims, his origins have stumped many.

Whereabouts of his parents: currently unknown

Who were his parents: currently unknown

Relatives Living: unknown, possible "Uncle"

Relatives Dead/Undead: possible "Grampa Reap"

Formative years: claims to have been held captive and experimented on/tortured by The Owners aboard The Big Trash, possible delusion/cause of choice of Medical profession/irrational focus on Enema's and Anal Probings and Disection of Dead things

Education: formal training and Degree's earned in General Medicine/ Specilized in Surgery / additional Pharmecutical training

Deans Notations: Excellent Technique, his small hands are capable of getting into the smallest places! Top of his Class! Outstanding!

Deans Confidential Notations: Despite urgings "Dr." Wiley insists on pursuing a carreer to which his attrocious bed side manners would be better suited for the Forensic fields or that of a Mortician, if only he had been taller. I pity the fool that allows those hands anywhere near them. And most importantly stay seated in his presence, especially if those hands are behind his back!

Psychiatric Deans Notations: Wonderful Mind! Fruitfully Piquant! Extraordinary Powers of Perception!

Psychiatric Deans Confidential Notations: Mr. Wiley's selectedly self induced delusions and his totallly twisted perception of his surreal surroundings practically preclude any chance that he could possibly politely participate in any generally or generically gentile societal systems, let alone professionally practice in private. He should not be trusted to practice in any private or public institution, but should be locked away in solitary confinement for life and Institutionalized and studied. Oh, the textbooks that we would gain!

Phys Ed Deans Notations: Amazing Coordination, Body control, can compete way above his weight class.

Phys Ed Deans Confidential Notations: Do not allow him into any sanctioned competitions. He does not fight fairly, even given his limited height he continuously goes for the low prohibited blows, be not fooled by his seemingly innocent looks. He once even hospitalized one of the largest of our varsity students. Upon awakening, from the coma, said student reluctantly admitted to having misjudged his own abilities to out run Nick, nor to have stayed out of the reach of Nick's belt, which he learned to his detriment could be used as a Whip! We are as yet unable to prove that he has been some how using his medical knowledge to unethically drug his opponents, prior to or during his bouts. We feel compelled to have him expelled, but the Dean has overturned it and expunged it from his record, claiming that his Academic contributions far outweigh his detriments.

Known Associates: none that would admit to more than a casual association, many suspected casualties, both amongst known Brown Coat sympathizers and Alliance personnel.

Total Time on Alliance Records: spans 20 years, 5 of which are currently unaccounted for.

Last Seen: boarding ship called Betty Mae

Current Location: currently unknown

Consensus: Limited outside funding was initially provided to Actively Monitor/ Record Activities of subject. Monitoring currently set at minimal necessity due to selfs Paranoia and his delusion of "The Owners" relentless search for him as being the Master Key to "Obfusticating Paranormal Energy Regulated Alternates " precludes our need to further expend Alliance Resources.

Code Name: OPERA

Unofficial Records/Unsubstantiated Claims/Psychiatric Deans Upcoming Novella

Untold years spent at the mercy of those employed by The Owners while sequestered aboard The Big Trash. Perhaps it was the medical experiments performed upon him that stunted his growth but unleashed his mind?

Rescued from The Owners/Raised by an "Uncle" who was allegedly an artist and collector of Confederate Civil War memorabilia. Likely creator of "Grampa Reap" comic based on old Tin-type photo, both now in Nick's protective custody.

Spent 3 years stranded on forest world/Searching for his Roots/Living with Grampa Reap

The Big Trash? Yes it did at one time exist. Built and launched many decades ago, it went out into the Black, pushing back the edges of unknown space. A mobile self sustaining Space Station/Ore Gathering/ Processing Plant, it was designed to go out and get what the Owners wanted, cutting out the middle men.

They were said to have gone to many places here to fore unreachable, and some that were near unspeakable, traversing not only Space, but maybe even Time and Dimensions....

Many singularly valuable profound oddities were procured and sent back from its far travels, that is before such shipments ceased to return.

Many more small oddities of questionable value were also found and introduced into the Verse.

Give me an N? N!

Give me an I? I!

Give me a C? C!

Need I go on?

Yes, Nick was one such small oddity, or so he will claim if pressed, spindled or mutilated, if it is not just another Tall Tale. He does not react well, nor play nicely, when "The Owners" are mentioned in his presence.

Another oddity is Nick's Grandfather, who he claims to have known as "Grampa Reap", who if it can be believed is said to have claimed to have been a Civil War survivor. No, not a survivor of one of the Alliance's Civil Wars. He is referring to Old Earths War of Northern Oppression vs the Southron Environs.